X:1
T:Dry Town Blues
N:From the playing of the Leake County Revelers (Mississippi), with
N:fiddler Wil Gilmer.
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Blues
N:Play AA'AA'BB'AA'CC'
D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/dry-town-blues
D:Columbia 15441-D (78 RPM), Leake County Revelers (1929. Recorded
D:04/1929 in Atlanta, Ga.).
D:Document DOCD 8030, "Leake County Revelers, vol. 2" (1998)
Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz
K:F
P:A
A(B|cA)d(A cA)d(A|cA)d(A cA2)(E|FD)G(D FD)G(D|FD)GD FD2(=B,|
C)=B,CD EFGE| CD E2 [E4c4]-|[E4c4][_EB]-[=E2c2][Ec]-|1,3[Ec]c[Ec]d- d2 c2|[A6A6]:|2,4 cAcA BA G2|F6||
P:B
(e2|fe)g(e fe)g(e|fe)ge fd3|(FD)G(D FD)G(D|_AD)GD FD2 (=B,|
C)=B,CD EFGE| CD E2 [E4c4]-|[E4c4][_EB]-[=E2c2][Ec]-|1[Ec]c[Ec]d- d2 c2|[A6A6]:|2 cAcA BA G2|F6||
P:C
[G2A2]-|[M:2/4][A2A2]AB |[M:C|] c8-| c2 +slide+d2 dc-c2|A8-|A2A2-B2 A2|G8-|[M:2/4]G2:|
The Leake County RevelersDRY TOWN BLUES. American, Country Blues Tune (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'AA"BB'CC'DD'. "Dry Town Blues" is from the playing of fiddler Wil Gilmer with the group The Leake County Revelers, from Sebastapol, Mississippi. "Dry Town" usually refers to a town where alcohol is prohibited. Mississippi not only was 'dry' during National Prohibition (1920-1933), but as late as 1966 the state was legally dry when it became the final state to repeal prohibition. It is even illegal to bring alcohol through a dry county in the state.
Additional notes Source for notated version : - Leake County Revelers [Milliner-Koken].
Printed sources : - Clare Milliner & Walt Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 172.
Recorded sources : - Columbia 15441-D (78 RPM), Leake County Revelers (1929. Recorded 04/1929 in Atlanta, Ga.). Document DOCD 8030, "Leake County Revelers, vol. 2" (1998)
